In the tradition of magician-turned-filmmaker Méliès, the films shown this evening embrace their history as a charlatan's enterprise. The screening features: Igor Vamos's Le Petomane: Fin de Siècle Fartiste (55 mins, 3/4" Video), a documentary about Moulin Rouge performer Joseph Pujol whose "musical anus" had Parisian audiences rolling in the aisles; Adele Horne's The Point of True Beginning (15 mins, B/W, 16mm), an adventure story about the first exploration of the Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico that maps narratives of natural history, archeology, and tourism; Rachel Mayeri's In the Anatomical Theatre of Peter the Great (5 mins, 3/4" Video) in which engravings from Baroque cabinets of wonder animate a dinner attended by at least One Hundred Peter the Greats and One Hundred Empress Catherines; and Lady Fingers (8 mins, 3/4" Video), by Rita Gonzalez and Rachel Mayeri, conjuring the unearthly love of a mortuary cosmetician for a reader at a stenography school.